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Originally posted by paulywerner
... Just because Steinbrenner spends his money wisely, people want to criticize the Yankees for being overated, and over paid...
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I don't have 2003 data, but in 2002, if you rank the 30 MLB teams in payroll divided by wins, or money spent per win, the Yankees rank 29th. And no, 30th is not the Red Sox, but the Rangers.
And to provide some numbers: in 2002 the Yankees spent $1,295,434.53 for each regular season win, as opposed to, for example, the Oakland A's, who spent only $407,210.34 for each win.
So tell me again how Steinbrenner spends his money wisely?
By my calculations, if the Yankees could get the same efficiency as Oakland (that is, if each win only cost them $400k) and they had the same $133 mil payroll they had in 2002, they would have enough cash to win a whopping
328 games.
Impossible, you say? How about some less extreme examples. By following the Red Sox's efficiency model, the Yanks would have won 10 more games. By following the Dodger's efficiency, they would have won 18 more games.
By following the average MLB efficiency of $846K per win, the Yankees could have won 158 games in 2002.
It's the same kind of thing that makes people around the world want to kill innocent Americans.